Three tall tales. one big city.

Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands trial and lashes out at a hostile courtroom. A man who has resigned himself to a life of solitude reconsiders after meeting a charming pizza delivery woman. And finally, a happy young couple find themselves undergoing a series of frightening metamorphoses.
In Tokyo!, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “surreal Tokyo anthology”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing alienation, media, identity, bureaucracy, love.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)E8/E9 · identity, love
Howl's Moving Castle (2004)E8/E9 · identity, love
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)E8/E9 · identity, love
Bedazzled (2000)E8/E9 · identity, love
Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)E8/E9 · identity, media
Penelope (2007)E8/E9 · identity, loveOther films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Her (2013)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Soul (2020)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
A Dog's Purpose (2017)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
The Boss Baby (2017)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Trolls (2016)alters at E8 · same rung · looseOther films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)consciousness in monsters · immortal love triangle
The Little Mermaid (2023)consciousness in monsters · underwater kingdom
Splash (1984)consciousness in monsters · mermaid city
KPop Demon Hunters (2025)consciousness in monsters · idol‑stage demon battleground
The Shape of Water (2017)consciousness in monsters · amphibian romance
Shrek (2001)consciousness in monsters · fairy‑tale swampThe same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Elemental (2023)consciousness carried elsewhere · bureaucracy, identity
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)consciousness carried elsewhere · identity, love
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)consciousness in machines · identity, media
Shrek 2 (2004)consciousness in animals · identity, love
The Little Mermaid (1989)consciousness in animals · identity, love
Young Frankenstein (1974)consciousness in the dead · identity, love